Hosokawa, Toshio - Landscapes - Miyata, Mayumi (sho)
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Mayumi Miyata, sho
Münchener Kammerorchester
Alexander Liebreich, conductor
ECM's ongoing series of recordings with the Munich Chamber Orchestra continues with an intriguing album of new and recent pieces by Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa. Amongst the featured compositions are "Sakura für Otto Tomek" and "Cloud and Light", both written in 2008, and "Ceremonial Dance", written in 2000. These 21st century pieces are brought together with "Landscape V" (originally from 1993 and for string quartet, and subsequently expanded into an orchestral version).
Born in Hiroshima in 1955, Hosokawa was initially inspired by Western art music from Schubert to Schoenberg, and came to Germany in the 1970s to study with Isang Yun and Klaus Huber. As he strengthened his standing in the European and international avant-garde he also put down deeper roots in Japanese traditional music, his work often suggesting a dialogue between East and West, between the archaic and modern, between ceremonial music and concert music. Hosokawa considers his compositional process instinctively associated with Zen Buddhism and its symbolic interpretation of nature and the inter-relatedness of things and concepts. Involvement with traditional music led Hosokawa to study the sho, the ancient Japanese mouth organ with 17 bamboo pipes.
Mayumi Miyata, perhaps contemporary music's best-known sho player, is heard here with the MKO in a recording made at Munich's Himmelfahrtskirche (Church of the Ascension) in October 2009. Here she plays unaccompanied sho on "Sakura", Hosokawa's adaptation of a traditional Japanese piece, and 'solos' in Hosokawa's music for orchestra and sho. Miyata's previous ECM appearance was on Helmut Lachenmann's "Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern".